RHBA-2011:1523 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated binutils package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating,
modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof
(for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing
symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files),
objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating
an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed
information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an
object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files),
strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file
and line).

This update includes various bug fixes and enhancements. Space precludes
documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Technical Notes for information on the most significant
of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/binutils.html#RHBA-2011-1523

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated binutils package, which fixes these
bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 664640 - [6.0] readelf doesn't display a multibyte character in the ELF header correctly.
• BZ - 689829 - ELFOSABI_LINUX is incorrectly set in a dynamic ifunc-using executable
• BZ - 698005 - eu-unstrip: do not seem to match
• BZ - 701586 - c++ fails with errors if "-ldl" is not at end of parameter list
• BZ - 714824 - bug when linking kernel - debug info for setup_arch not found

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/binutils.html#RHBA-2011-1523